--NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_9298_1139317267_0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Would appreciate some explanation/discussion re Quakers and headstones. In the Williams County, Ohio Quaker cemetery I have photographed my family headstones dating back to mid 1800's. Each plot appears to have a stone. --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_9298_1139317267_0 Content-Type: message/rfc822 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: NJBURLIN-D Digest V06 #15 Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 08:04:45 +0000 Content-Type: Multipart/mixed; boundary="NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_9298_1139317267_1" --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_9298_1139317267_1 Content-Type: text/plain NJBURLIN-D Digest Volume 06 : Issue 15 Today's Topics: #1 Lambert burial grounds [[email protected] (Terri)] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from NJBURLIN-D, send a message to [email protected] that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. Please contact the listowner at [email protected] if you have any problems with the list. ______________________________ --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_9298_1139317267_1 X-Message: #1 Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 05:38:40 -0800 From: [email protected] (Terri) To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Subject: Lambert burial grounds Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Would like to thank all who responed to my question - Anita, James, Nancy, Margaret and Sally. Learned something new! Didn't know Quakers didn't/don't like headstones. Thanks all -- Terri --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_9298_1139317267_1-- --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_9298_1139317267_0--
Quakers didn't believe in tombstones, they thought them vain and so tombstones were usually not allowed in early Quaker cemeteries. Generally the meeting kept records of where people were buried using a map and the meeting minutes would give the dates of death and some information on the deceased. I don't have a date when Quakers began allowing tombstones but I would say it was probably about 1850. This may have varied from meeting to meeting. Its possible that people have placed tombstones on the site of burials, after the fact, that has happened in my family, but you need to be careful since the information on the tombstone isn't very accurate, at least in my case. Because something is written in stone doesn't mean its accurate. Quakers thought the important part of the person was the soul and that left the body upon death. What remained wasn't very important. I've seen several instances when Quakers sold their filled burial grounds without removing the bodies, and buildings were built on the site. One is at Haddonfield, N.J. where the bodies are now the parking lot of an Acme Market (I've recently heard that this might not have been a cemetery). And at Newton, N.J. the cemetery was sold and a factory was built on the site. (I don't know if the bodies were removed for the foundation of the building). Clearly Quakers didn't have a high regard for bodies of the deceased, they were mearly vessels for the soul. Jim Stokes Family Web Page http://home.comcast.net/~jameslstokes [email protected] wrote: --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_9298_1139317267_0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Would appreciate some explanation/discussion re Quakers and headstones. In the Williams County, Ohio Quaker cemetery I have photographed my family headstones dating back to mid 1800's. Each plot appears to have a stone. --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_9298_1139317267_0 Content-Type: message/rfc822 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: NJBURLIN-D Digest V06 #15 Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 08:04:45 +0000 Content-Type: Multipart/mixed; boundary="NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_9298_1139317267_1" --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_9298_1139317267_1 Content-Type: text/plain NJBURLIN-D Digest Volume 06 : Issue 15 Today's Topics: #1 Lambert burial grounds [[email protected] (Terri)] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from NJBURLIN-D, send a message to [email protected] that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. Please contact the listowner at [email protected] if you have any problems with the list. ______________________________ --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_9298_1139317267_1 X-Message: #1 Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 05:38:40 -0800 From: [email protected] (Terri) To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Subject: Lambert burial grounds Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Would like to thank all who responed to my question - Anita, James, Nancy, Margaret and Sally. Learned something new! Didn't know Quakers didn't/don't like headstones. Thanks all -- Terri --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_9298_1139317267_1-- --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_9298_1139317267_0-- --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses.